What's next for Harry?

[Eddie]

No: HPFGUIDX 159477

> Michael Davies:
> Here's where we predict the ultimate outcome of the last book!
> Predictions may be as wild and wonderful as you wish.  But you must
> address four characters and their outcomes.

Eddie:
Ooohhh, I love speculation!  It's almost as much fun as writing our
own books.  Here are a few of mine.  Are more than 4 allowed?

Voldemort - "Lord Voldemort" will be killed but "Tom Riddle" will
survive, living out the rest of his life in blissful insanity in the
Room of Love in the Ministry of Magic

Ron & Hermione - killed by Voldemort, leaving Harry with no friendly
support to help him fulfill his hero's quest.

Wormtail - trying to protect Harry (to fulfill his life-debt) is
killed by Voldemort

Snape - survives, is exonerated by helping Harry defeat Voldemort, but
maybe ends up still teaching Potions and having to watch Harry be
given the Defense Against The Dark Arts teaching post.

Harry - survives, plays professional Quidditch, snogs Ginny.  Together
thay have a few children who all have unruly red hair and their
father's eyes.

Dumbledore - stays dead, but is able to advise Harry via the chocolate
frog cards and the portrait in the Headmistress' office.

Sirius - stays dead, and is never heard from again

Nearly-Headless Nick - Trying to contact Sirius, Dumbledore, etc, in
an effort to help Harry, Nick will pass through the Veil of Death in
the Ministry of Magic, but he will never be heard from again.  Before
he goes he'll say, "507 years is long enough to go on without a
properly severed head.  I'm no longer afraid of death."

Dobby - kills Kreacher and becomes Harry and Ginny's house elf, and
marries Winky.

S.P.E.W. - The house elves will earn great honor as they help overcome
Voldemort and the death eaters.  The magic that enslaves their kind
will be loosened somewhat, but no so much that they will freak out. 
Oh well, it's a step in the right direction.

Horcruxes - (1) Kreacher has the locket (Dobby will be involved in
prying it from Kreacher's cold dead hands); (2)(3)(4) Cup,
Gryffindor's item, Ravenclaw's item -- no clue.  But I suspect the
House elves will be instrumental in finding these.  Or nifflers.

Hogwarts - closed and/or destroyed.  The four houses divided against
themselves cannot stand.  It will be replaced by a new school with
McGonagall as the headmistress.  The crest of the new school will
contain a lightning-shaped scar-like symbol.  The architectural style
will be a post-modern all-glass cube with a fern-bedecked Starbuck's
in the lobby.  (OK, maybe not this last sentence.)

Hagrid - After Hogwarts closes, Hagrid moves to France (with Grawp)
and marries Olympia

Percy - when Ron and Hermione are killed, he will be shocked into a
reconciliation with his family

Mrs. Figg - will gain a small measure of magic late in life

Dursleys - In a fit of compassion for all they've been through, Harry
will modify their memories so they will completely forget they ever
knew anything about Harry and the wizarding world.  Unfortunately,
this becomes a full-time task because of all the secondary people who
have memories of Harry: Aunt Marge, the kids at Dudley's and Harry's
primary school, etc. 

Bill and Fleur - in the heat of "passion" Bill will bite Fleur and she
will grow fur on her face whenever Bill moons her.  Bill will be cool
with that.

Eddie - will continue to visit HPfGU even after book 7 is published so
we can continue to speculate about the questions Rowling didn't
answer.  :-)